After supplies of Siemens and General Electric gas turbines were halted, Russian power companies found themselves facing a choice between domestic solutions and supplies from China, but the latter hit the wallet hard. This was reported by Pavel Maryshev, Development Director of the company Energiya Plyus.
According to him, developments by the United Engine Corporation (UEC) already exist, but they have not yet entered serial production.
Modernization without purchasing domestic turbines can now be considered exclusively through China. And this greatly inflates the final estimate.
Maryshev noted that Asian manufacturers have already reached the level of Western counterparts in terms of quality, but their products remain expensive.
UEC is building the latest GTD-110M turbine, which features high fuel efficiency — its efficiency exceeds 36%. This places the power unit on a par with the world’s best gas turbine engines.
Earlier it became known that the Ural Turbine Works had begun work on creating the first 330 MW steam turbine — the largest unit of this class in Russia.
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